Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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